shoot range and blow up things? come on. jon, you grew up like i grew up, really, you lived in tennessee for four years, i can t tell you how many homes i ve been in across the south and there were shotguns and the shotguns were in the cabinets. yeah. everywhere. nothing wrong with that. no. that s our way of life. not only the south, i mean, all over the country. please, i wish i could say i wish i could say the worse because i ve said much worse. this b.s. this is a sacred part of the american culture is, willie, b.s. even mayor michael bloomberg as tough as can be on guns doesn t want to take away the second amendment. you can have guns, you just can t have assault rifles. i don t think he grew up in the south. no, i don t think so either. south medford, massachusetts.
passionate people that said what you always want to hear, thank you for saying what i wanted to say. thank you for putting into words. they were they were, my friends from first baptist church, they were hunters, they were people that said, i m not going to have somebody i m not going to have extremists take my right to keep and bear a arms, protect my family, and go hunting with my kids. i think that s the key word. gun owners who think this through realize that the second amendment culture has bone totally captured by extremists since before really, but i think the marker is when, in 1994, i think, the phrase, jack booted thugs, remember, was used about the atf and people like george
and i can answer my daughters with a better answer than i gave them friday night. welcome back to morning joe. at the table now nbc news, tom brokaw and also former foreign policy to the bush administration and romney campaign. dan senor and washington pulitzer prize, nbc political analyst, eugene robinson. i kid dan because i love him. dan, i m just curious, wh what you re a conservative like me. i think you ve probably been supportive of gun rights as me, supportive of the second amendment, have the same world view as me. i m curious, how have things changed around your house? how have things changed in your mind since friday when it comes do this issue?
i ve been a long time supporter of second amendment rights. i believe every american has second amendment rights. the ability to hunt is part of our culture. i ve had an nra rating of an a. but, you know, enough is enough. i m father of three daughters and this weekend, they all said, dad, you know, how can this go on? i, like i think most of us, think there are ways to get to rational gun control. there won t be one perfect law to stop a crazy person from doing evil things. when we have close to 30,000 killings a year from all types of gun violence, even if we save a few lives, we make progress
especially those on the right, you got to kind of be at the table now and you ve got to check your ideological baggage at the door. by the way, i m not a second amendment absolutist any more than first amendment absolutist. we are going to have to reign in and address some of these rights or access to content or weapons or whatever it is in order to address this issue. if you can t check your absolutism at the door, you can t be at the table. you have to be at the table and part of the discussion. i want to make one important point. many of the people who have weapons and you grew up with it. my family and campbell s family from the south louisiana. we say, it s a big part of the culture, that s what we often say. it s a big part. it s more than that. we have friends and family down south, some of whom, women, who